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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "Rendition is the result of such pompous over-pronouncements. It's a well-intentioned screed undone by its desire to make all sides of its conflict saintly simplistic."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D- "Rendition wastes a serious amount of time and effort force-feeding the viewer lessons on how injustice breeds contempt. For the sequel, I hear the producers plan to explore how fire is hot and water is wet."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "can be best described as a fantasy."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin B- "After overblown stories of mass walkouts by critics during its Toronto debut, Rendition proves to have enough substance, momentum and surprise to validate its entertainment value as a politically charged thriller."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "While Rendition does show terrible torture, it doesn't quite rethink the cultural context, the conditions that produce such monsters, again and again."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "It's not until the pieces finally start to fall into place that Rendition becomes the hard-hitting, thought-provoking drama Hood clearly wants it to be..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "Deserves to be commended for just being made."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "A stale, murky drama so oversimplified that its politics boil down to a single tidy, elementary-level message: torture is bad."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "Hollywood kick-starts another Oscar season with a modish globetrotting guilt trip that histrionically explores how government policy and our involvement in the Middle East affects people in America on a personal level."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 3/5 "Un thriller político bastante crítico hacia los métodos anti terroristas de Estados Unidos y sus aliados, en la misma línea de Syriana, Munich y Leones por Corderos (aunque mucho más efectiva que esta última)."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "I have no qualms with any of the performances, or with the film's individual components. It's the overall effect that's lackluster. This is a film that's good and decent, but not as deep it wants to be."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "If you're going to lecture us on the evils of torture, you better not make a film where in the end we feel there's more information to be discovered."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B- "A good film that's at its best when it's not talking so much."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C- "Aims to appear courageous but in the end comes across as mealy-mouthed...its political stance is feeble, its dramatic sense weak, and its execution flawed."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Explores the dark side of the so-called war on terrorism where human rights are ignored by the CIA and spit upon by Islamic terrorists."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "We are ambushed by a simplistic storyline that's more interested in sermonizing and demonizing than existing in the real world where things aren't as clear-cut as the movie would like us to believe."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Hood's direction globe-trots with a spring in its step, and he's got a handle on action, too."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 6/10 "Does its job, keeping the action involving, but in an increasing pool of U.S.-policy-and-the-Middle-East movies, it also feels like one of the crowd."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 3/4 "Well-crafted political pot-boiler almost succeeds at being neither manipulative nor sensationalistic. Almost."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "Three or four years ago, a movie about innocent citizens being pulled into secret torture prisons because of the color of their skin might have raised an eyebrow or two, but those days are long gone."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/5 "Rendition's heart is in the right place, but feels like a desperate single attempt to get it all out at once out of fear of losing another chance. I am glad I saw it, but I don't ever need to see it again."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2/4 "The stories are unflatteringly forced together, neither of them highlighting the thematic relevance of the other."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[The torture] scenes are pretty graphic... but every American should be forced to watch this movie... in order to see what is being done in our name, and in the name of, supposedly, freedom and justice."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "The film doesn't know or care who Anwar El-Ibrahimi is outside of how his plight affects the white folks connected with him."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/4 "Rendition is an important film. Art, by definition, is supposed to provoke, to spur emotions, to enlighten. On those counts, this movie scores a bull's-eye."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "As Hollywood tries to make sense -- or at least drama -- from current events, it is inevitable that the early attempts will seem cardboardish and melodramatic."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow D+ "Laughably melodramatic and agonizingly inert."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Apresenta-se simultaneamente como um bom filme e, lamentavelmente, também como uma oportunidade desperdiçada."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "South African director Hood (Tsotsi) turns what could have been yet another Hollywood potboiler into an edgy dramatic thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/4 "Probes deep into a serious problem, and will entertain those who enjoy current events sprinkled over their cinema."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "If these new, allegedly topical movies are to make us feel anything -- to move us toward any action or even just toward any fresh realization -- they need to at least seem alive on the screen, instead of just courting our polite, measured applause."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Considering the incendiary subject matter - the use of torture to extract information - this political thriller should be a lot more compelling than it is."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "A naive, poorly-thought out, badly-reasoned left-wing(nut) manifesto that gives the Right all the ammunition it needs."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1